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From abstract expressionism on:

"I was finding it very difficult to control that much space," he recalled. "It takes a lot of control to push that much paint around and for it to look as if it was not struggled with, as if it was spontaneous."
That the black slash, let's say, filled the space right up to the front and there was no more space! .. They never really understood how to put the painting together in any physical terms, how each color or element in the painting; has weight and field density, and that they all must be consistent.
On Giorgio Morandi: Physically he carved a space for each one of these elements, where the amount of space left by the so-called ground was exactly that which the object occupied, so that it was as if the air had taken on substance.
(On small canvases,) the gestural concern at this scale began to be replaced by a textural one.
There's a consistency to physical objects that somehow reads all the way through,
Whereas previously he had phrased the challenge in terms of the gesture's seeming authenticity or the painting's compositional consistency, now he began to think more in terms of the canvas's physical presence.
'inner life of the painting,'... I guess that's a way of talking about it. But shapes on a painting are just shapes on a canvas unless they start acting on each other and really, in a sense, multiplying. A good painting has a gathering, interactive build-up in it.

"Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees"